CBSE launches teachers’ Capacity Building Programmes in AI, Information Technology

The online awareness and capacity building programme for teachers teaching Information Technology to Classes 9 to 10 students is scheduled for today, i.e. 10 am on May 31.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has recently launched capacity building programmes in Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence. According to the reports, the newly introduced programmes are for the development of teachers’ capacity and skills. The online awareness and capacity building programme for teachers teaching Information Technology to Classes 9 to 10 students is scheduled for today, i.e. 10 am on May 31. Meanwhile, the Board has ended the registrations process for the programme have ended.

In order to train Class 11 teachers in Artificial Intelligence (AI), the CBSE has collaborated with IBM. The programme will be held in various batches between June 2 and July 14. There is no registration fee for both programmes. Talking about the programme, the Board said, for the AI training programme, each session will be of three days and will be based on the CBSE Class 12 curriculum. The training agenda and invitation links will be emailed to the selected teachers, it added.

Recently, the CBSE also asked students to join the Young Warrior Movement – a movement that seeks to engage youths in a series of easy and real-life tasks to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Young Warrior Movement has been launched by the joint collaboration of the CBSE, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, YuWaah-UNICEF and a multi-stakeholder consortium of over 950 partners.

CBSE in its official statement said, “YoungWarrior is a nationwide movement to engage five million young people to lead action against COVID-19 and impact 50 million people."

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